hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. we have a very busy week ahead. in the efforts to cut out the coronavirus and the much related back to school challenge and in 2020 poll techs. joe biden picks his running mate in the days ahead. the president begins this week as he ended the last one, misleading you. he said democrats called him eager to revive coronavirus stimulus talks. democrats say that's a fable. new talks would be good because

it's clear the president overhyped executive weekend steps he promised to help the unemployed and those facing evictions and for many american families, a new report brings a complication. nearly 100,000 american children got sick with the virus just in the last 2 weeks of july and new reporting shows the president's vaccine timeline likely out of sync with reality. experts say 2021 is more realistic but election day 200 is out of the question if safety guidelines are followed. the president's weekend assessment of the case numbers, quote, all coming down. some numbers today are down but, no, sir, not all. new cases dipped over the weekend tan seven-day average at nearly 54,000, that is 13% lower than the previous week. new numbers out of florida show they added the fewest cases in a single day since june 23rd. 4,155 is today's number.

bu but the decline is relative to the pandemic highs and some states are trending up. the country's still averaging over 30,000 more daily new cases than it was back at the start of summer. at least 11 states report record daily hospitalizations. the death, a sad one, again, above 1,000. one big trouble sign? 35 states are reported higher positivity rates in the coronavirus testing this week than in the previous week. let's go through the trends. some of them are more positive. hard to say optimistic but some are more positive. eight states trending up, more cases this week than last week. new infections, eight states trending up. 26 states, a majority of the united states, heading down in the case count now compared to last week. florida, arizona, california among those trending down. they were a big part of the summer surge. we know this is a lagging

indicator. still a sad map here but the map improved somewhat right now as middle to late last week in terms of new deaths reported, eight states reporting a higher death toll than a week ago. 19 holding steady. 23 states fewer deaths this week compared to the data last week. let's hope that trend continues because the numbers are quite sobering. this way, here's withone way tok at this, deaths lag cases, walk across here, 16 days in the last 30 have had more than 1,000 recorded in the united states of america, that is a sad statistic. one that we must push down. we start thinking about this. this study is quite concerning. children with covid in the united states as of july 30th. nearly 340,000 cases. see the number here. 9% of the total cases in

children. a big complication as you think is it safe for my child to go back to school in the last two weeks of july, 97,000 cases. 40% increase in coronavirus among children just as we start to go back to school. where is this happening the most? alabama, wyoming, tennessee, new mexico and south carolina. you see it consistent here. 15, 16. alabama's number is higher counting children up to 24. these states cut it off lower but think twice, three times, the safety protocols going back to school. here's a public health expert to say get kids back in the classroom but you better be careful. >> these numbers happened while schools were in lockdown or in summer recess. what do the numbers tell you as we now are sending the students into schools? >> those numbers are a reminder that kids are not immune from the disease. they get infected. they don't get as sick as adults

do and that's really good news but it's a reminder to be careful thinking about schools and not turn this into a political issue but think about when is it safe for kids to go back to school and then only send kids back in. >> with us to share expertise, the former cdc official, dr. shapar and robin lake. doctor, let me start with you. i was reading something you were quoted in over the weekend talking about this testing issue. states count the results differently. my word count. not the right technical word and no great standard. in new york city the school superintendent says we get above 3% positivity, we're going to shut things down and go back to remote learning. what is your biggest issue with testing as we start to send more and more children back to school? >> i think there's a lot of issues with the data. what are people counting?

one of the things to look at is how are people counting antigen testing. are they including that in totals? if they're not, is that behind lower tests? i think it's a little bit of discrepancy in how they look at testing and important to be consistent and important to look at the same information for different places but we have a good picture of the country. >> robin, the study you did is fascinating. even now the data is a week old and so this is a quick -- changing so quickly and hard to track and urge parents going through to this look at this. one statistic right here. district recommendations, about 40% say fully in person. 25% not yet announced. remote 14%. hybrid which is a mix about 12%. no information 10%. what jumps out at me looking at that is the not yet announced. we are in august. the school year starts in august

or right after labor day and districts say i have to think this through. right? >> it is amazing. i have two kids at home and they're waiting for word. you know, i think a lot of districts spent the summer planning, thinking through different scenarios and now are looking carefully at the health guidance and trying to figure out what to do but unfortunately aren't getting the guidance they need to really make clear decisions from their local health officials so we see lot of hand wringing from school districts trying to make the right decision and certainly from parents. >> so the longer the wait adds to the uncertainty. doctor, i want to come back to the testing because you raise a great point r. th. are we doing enough testing at this key moment? testing is down in 27 states. down in 27 states right now

compared to last week. you look at the states right there. to me that says broadly not just children, it leaves you less visible in terms of how much coronavirus do i have in my state and community. does that trouble you that there's a decrease in testing at this critical moment? >> yeah. a few months ago if we looked to where we wanted to be or thought we would be we're not even close to that. we need to be testing more with a lot of cases. we need eyes on the virus so it's problematic that right now we are already bumping up against capacity constraint. tests take a long time to come back and essentially useful so very concerned about the testing, especially as schools tie in the decisions to open in some parts of the country around test numbers and positivity. >> robin, another interesting pieces of your study is this what are districts deciding to do around the country. if you look at city versus

suburb versus rural, urban areas, you see a much higher percentage of city districts saying we're going to remote learning, keep the children at home. much smaller percentage in rural areas or flip that -- excuse me -- go the other way, much higher percentage of rural areas saying let's get back into class. smaller percentage of urban. based on city, suburb, rural, what jumped out at you? >> we were struck by that. we were tracking the large districts and seeing over the past couple of weeks more and more, most actually were deciding to open schools remotely. they just didn't really have any choice to keep kids safe. but when we looked at those rural numbers we were blown away that so many are still planning to open in person and as you say so many are still undecided.

the obvious question for us and one we're hoping to dig into next are those decisions being tied to real science? is it health conditions driving the decisions or something else going on behind the scenes? parent attitudes, teacher attitudes, you know, feeling pressure to keep schools open? we don't know so that's the next step in the research. >> there's a lot we don't know and have an experiment as school districts reopen. doctor, one of the issues is some districts have inevitable, children go back in the classroom and should there be some national standard for what to do when you get positive tests? i often talk about the 50-state experiment with reopening schools. 13,000 school districts across the country. that's just public school districts. do you think there should be statewide or national standards for the level of positivity or the percentage of positive tests

before thinging kis kick in? >> i think there should be national science-based guidance in terms of how we should open and also what we do when we get cases and of course on the other side when we want to think about a pause on in-person education. there's a lot of information out there and i think it's hard for some smaller jurisdictions or districts to digest that information and very helpful to have overarching national guidance that's science based. >> doctor, appreciate your insights. robin lake, as well. this helps to inform the thinking going through this. i thank you both. up next, the president says democrats called him asking him to reopen stimulus negotiations but the democrats say he's making things up again. first, a flashback, six months to today. one of the president's many coronavirus missteps.

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there is word today that congressional democrats and the white house might try again to negotiate a new coronavirus relief package. >> we are prepared to put more money on the table so we're -- there are things as i said that made sense to compromise. we have compromised. so we're not stuck at the trillion dollars but we are not going to go unlimited amounts of money to do things that don't make sense. >> what we know as we wait to find out is that the president is trying to mislead you again. sunday night the president said democrats called him eager to make a deal. fiction says the senate's top democrat. >> fables from donald trump.

fables. that's what he seems to specialize in. i didn't call him. speaker pelosi didn't call him. no. we didn't call him. >> now, this talk of more talks comes after a weekend that did not go after the president hoped. he promised the executive orders to help the unemployed and those facing eviction but you quickly find out it doesn't match up the president's description of the actions. with me now to discuss is phil mattingly and sung min kim. i don't want a who's on first comedy routine but they have to reach agreement. what do we know about are they actually planning to talk again or just going to point fingers object who wants to talk the most? >> probably the latter. the talks seemed to all but collapse on friday when both sides came out and said there was really no progress towards a deal. the democrats and the trump administration officials could

not even agree on the top line figure, a price tag for the package to help create the rest of the fine print of the package but they left the meetings on friday unable to come to agreement and the president took his executive actions which the administration, the republicans say are meant to help when democrats in their view aren't willing to come to the table but in the democrats' view this really kind of serves to up end the talks and end them. they're not officially over but with the combination of the executive actions that the president took over the weekend and the fact that they can't agree on this big, big numbers, big top line issues makes it clear the talks are all but dead for now. >> phil, puts us at an interesting moment, the democrats could let the clock run out and judge the president's actions. he said he was giving $400 in new unemployment benefits.

the states have to put up money and very complicated and states say they don't have that money. the president said an eviction moratorium. the paper says it would be nice if treasury and the housing department tried to help people but there's no mandate to end or have a -- keep in place a moratorium. there's a payroll tax holiday and there's some student loan relief. there's some help there and nowhere near what the president suggested. if you listen to secretary mnuchin, he said we're ready to give and negotiate and easier to say that on television than in the room. >> yeah. look. there's no question about that. seung min hits a key point. if you can't hit a top line you can't slide everything else underneath. you need the top line to figure out where everything else stands and the big question is not whether the president's executive actions cover for the inability to figure out a legislative deal, they aren't. if you talk to white house deals

before the president pulled the trigger on this, they acknowledge this and to be frank despite president's presentation, they made it in a way to make it legal and so limited in the effectiveness. the bigger issue is who's going to blink first? the administration started pursuing executive actions in an effort to kind of of do a carrot and stick maneuver. the stick being if you don't come across the table toward our side we will pull the trigger on these and the president saying basically this is going to drive democrats back to the table. we have no sense of that right now and i think the divides so enormous on state and local funding where the democrats are above where the republicans are right now and on the unemployment insurance level and republicans have sur pewed both an executive action and in their proposals, $400 or less, until the bridges -- there's some type of way to bring them together, there's no sense that there's

any possibility of new talks. speaker said when you guys are willing to talk about a bigger number, we'll talk. the treasury secretary when you're ready to put something new on the table we'll talk. neither are happening so neither are talks. >> what you get in the interim and everybody at home unemployed would like to know if they get a bigger check, facing eviction like to know if the federal government will help and instead you get politics and republican poll it cans. senator ben sass conservative from nebraska over the weekend called what the president was doing unkorconstitutional slop. the president went after him on twitter. he goes on to beat him up there saying the foolishness plays into the hands of the radical left dems. this is another example of yes there's a tweet for everything. back a couple of years ago in 2014 then business marn potential candidate donald trump

said republicans must not let president obama to subvert the constitution of the united states for his own benefit and unable to negotiate with congress. >> that's right. if you have been around in washington long enough and you have seen different parties take control of congress and the white house you have taken almost every position and senator sass here trying to stay consistent with the view that the president doesn't have the authority to take certain actions on his own and the executi executive actions may make them legal but what matters is that congress has the power of the purse. congress has the power of taxation. during the 2014 debate when then president obama was taking executive actions on immigration, republicans back then threatened that perhaps a future republican president may do this on taxation issues.

so, you know, you wait not too long in washington and all these positions for the most part kind of come back to bite you. >> sometimes amusing. it is not at the moment given the concerns faced by millions of americans that don't have a job, face eviction. if they figure it out i expect you two to come back and tell me who called whom to get it going. appreciate that. coming up, nine cases of coronavirus surface at a georgia school. you will remember this school. you probably have seen this photo. mostly unmasked students in a crowded hallway just days ago. at university of phoenix,

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students at a georgia high school made national headlines after reopening learning from home today because the school needs a covid cleaning. you probably saw this image of north paulding high school last week. studen students crowded, that's to say the least, in the hall. many not wearing masks. at least nine north paulding students and staff members later tested positive for coronavirus and officials decided to order remote learning today and tomorrow. other districts trying to keep schools open when there are positive tests by sending those in closest contact home to quarantine. natasha chen is in atlanta following the story. it is remarkable, that photo sparked a national conversation

and now this. >> reporter: yeah. john, there are a lot of school districts making difficult decisions and this one like you said had to send kids home for today and tomorrow to do virtual learning and they will sanitize the campus in the meantime, consult with public health officials on what to do next and those families will be notified by tomorrow night how they will proceed with classes in the coming days and at north paulding high school is not alone. we are hear from cherokee county after the first week of school they have got at least 19 students and 4 staff members testing positive. over in gwinnett county teachers required to be in the buildings for prep and training before classes begin, about 260 employees are either testing positive or quarantining at the moment so just now we are at this new mega testing site at the atlanta airport. we asked the georgia governor who was here to announce this expanded testing about why he doesn't have a mask mandate

required for schools. here's what governor kemp told us. >> i'm confident the superintendents have the tools, the resources, the masks that we have given them as far as the state's concerned to be able to handle that at the local level. >> we are asking teachers to risk their lives daily to a virus that is preventable. that we can control the transmission. and the measures that are being put in place are not measures that we know will prevent the transmission in our school buildings. >> reporter: so you can hear educators are extremely concerned about this and i did just get to speak one on one with the u.s. surgeon general also here today about the mask mandates. he said he is not opposed to mandates but that engagement and education have to be coupled with them. here's how he thinks kids especially those in schools would get to wear a mask.

>> i want people here in atlanta, i want tyler perry, i want ludicris and ti who my kids care about and listen to to promote mask wearing and make it cool and then see many more kids doing the right thing because they're engaged and they understand how they benefit. >> reporter: and he and the governor were here to talk about this surge testing. this is one of ten to 20 sites around the country in areas with higher positivity rate. the idea to turn around results faster, 48, 72 hours to get the results which is certainly much faster than the current results are coming back from testing around the rest of georgia, john. >> natasha chen on the ground for us in atlanta. great interview with the surgeon general. a question you have throughout is why they react. why didn't they do it weeks

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it is decision week for joe biden and there is a big debate among democrats. play it safe with the vp safe or go bold? of course safe and bold can mean different things to different people. the race is tilting in biden's favor at the moment. 85 days until we count the votes. the democratic convention is next week and we know the running mate decision is at

hand. with me to share the reporting is two guests. this letter came out, 100 black men saying, mr. vice president, former vice president joe biden you should pick a woman of color, a black woman. you can hear it here. listen to the way it was put this morning. >> so if joe biden's campaign was dead, black women resurrected it and the only way to black women back and to ensure, right, that he can win, needs a black woman and not a suggestion, not a recommendation. at this point from us it's a demand and a requirement. >> no subtlety there. will joe biden listen? >> right. joe biden is under pressure now for weeks now. we have seen different groups

send him letters. we know he had a call with black women who really pushed him to select a black woman and he is considering several of them. we know that senator kamala harris, susan rice is top contender and considering congresswoman karen bass and we have heard that scrutiny of the past comments somewhat hurt her standing and seeing joe biden under pressure to pick a black woman and several are under consideration right now. >> going through that, we can show what we believe to be and this can change and we believe the five finalists on the list. kamara harris, susan rice, karen bass, tammy duckworth, gretchen whitmer. the state is in play of michigan, a governor. however, let me go through the

safe or go bold. this is the conventional wisdom. kamala harris ran for president, she had this national exposure. susan rice -- that would be safe. susan rice, biden knows her, trusts her and she never asked anybody for a vote. that would be a risk. is that fair? >> you know, i think that there's a bit of conventional wisdom behind what you are saying. there's a reason, though, to maybe not discount susan rice as people might think. kamala harris is known, a safe pick, her relationship with joe biden is known to the public. the thing of susan rice is joe biden has said this m times looking for somebody who will know how to govern on day one and not that kamala harris doesn't have the experience as a senator but i will say that susan rice has a sort of very unique set of credentials having worked in the executive branch before and that is something that not a lot of these other women have and something that joe biden has put a premium on

himself. the other thing of gretchen whitmer is i think the idea that choosing somebody from a swing state is a big advantage, you know, a lot of the analysts say that that's something that did not always pan out in reality. people think it helps them but it didn't actually play out when you look at how votes are counted. >> conventional wisdom is conventional and not always right. if you go outside the box, this is the year to do it. if joe biden makes the decision looking at a point of the data in the driver's seat. however, new polls out just now from cbs/ugov, plus 6 in wisconsin, a state trump flipped blue to red. joe biden plus 6 in pennsylvania. another state that donald trump flipped but go back in time. look at this. 59 this point joe biden up 6, this point 4 years ago hillary clinton up both in wisconsin and pennsylvania. if you are a democrat you think we're in good position or you

think deja vu all over again? >> i think democrats are so scarred after 2016 that they're not really going to take even if he is up by double digits not take this lightly but two things to see that could be problematic for the president is in that polling is a string of recent polls that throughout the summer that showed him losing ground in states that he won in 2016 and i think another point in that poll was that it showed the vast majority of those surveyed said that they believed that things in the u.s. were not going well so that is a problematic number for any sort of incumbent president and we are seeing that for president trump here and we are seeing joe biden try to capitalize on that, his campaign has been very focused on the president's handling of the coronavirus, running ads on it, talking about it in speeches so, you know, i think democrats are obviously going to be cautious this time around even if the polling shows them up by six points. >> interesting several days

ahead. great to see you both. the fate of college football up in the air thanks to coronavirus disruption. i'll speak to two student athletes about their concerns.

cross roads today for college football. multiple reports indicate big ten and perhaps other

conferences may cancel the 2020 season f. a season does happen there's a question of what players want in return for their labor. pac 12 players jump start add protest movement that now includes players from all five big football conferences. in a weekend statement they say we want to play but they say they will only do so if safety protocols are met and if the conferences move toward creating a players union. joining me now is ucla defensive back and defensive lineman. gentlemen, let's just start with this question. there's word today that seasons may get canceled. you both play ucla. that's the pac-12. any word at this moment whether your season is still in play? >> as far as we know, the season is still in play. there hasn't been anything concrete that's come out. they're trying to decide here in the next couple of days. could see a decision today or this week. we do hope they decide not to

cancel. >> let's go through the questions and some of your requests if there is a season. in this past several months we have seen a lot of activism and seeing the players step forward like yourselves. some of the things you have asked for here, some are covid-19 safety protocols and some of them more longstanding issues of player respect, revenue sharing ian the like. i want to share from a letter. we were all left disappointed and deeply concerned you are not taking the matter seriously and cannot be daily testing or regular testing since you claimed necessary tests are unavailable and impossible to mandate testing in the conference wide. elijah, you see baseball, hockey back up and playing where they have of this testing. why do you think they said, no, we can't do it?

>> that question i can't really answer. you know? that's really based on the ko s conference and their decision and doing the right thing and we have seen leagues like the nba that have done well having testing and being in a bubble but for our situation they're not trying to do the same thing. we want to be in a safe situation. we play the game we love to have a safe season and be able to play the whole thing. >> let's go through the other ones. you would like the option to play or not play to opt out essentially without losing athletics eligibility. and player approved health and safety standards. why is it you think that it's so difficult? these all seem common sense. you're college student athletes. the pros get to opt out and keep the contracts and the like. why do you think it's so difficult? is it just respect? >> i think it has to do with the lack of leadership that's going

on whether it's through the conference or the ncaa. requiring something like mandates on testing, for example, with the nfl pa has done at the professional level with 32 teams. we have 12 teams and didn't seem like they've been able to do something conference wide to make sure we can play the season and part of the reason we talked to commissioner scott in the way we did and he didn't -- have the mentality that we like to see from a commissioner regarding covid-19 concerns and how to make sure that we can scientific best practices for the fall season. >> and elijah, since you have no choice but to have the giant discussions of coronavirus testing, safety, respect, potential travel if there is a season, you players decided since we are in conversations let's raise the legacy issues. asking for a 50/50 revenue split

between the conference and the players, the ability to earn money for the use of the name, image and likeness. medical insurance and scholarships. these are bigger issues that predate the pandemic but as we go through all of this, what has been the answer when you say talk about the other big things, too, and why don't we do it all now? >> i feel like in this pandemic with the tides that the country is turning with the social movement, as well, we took the time to recognize there's some exploitation going on in the ncaa and there's -- they're profiting off the backs of athletes and the people at the top receive most of the money while athletes struggle to pay rent sometimes and come from -- don't come from the best situations all the time and don't have a lot of money to do anything. they're just playing a sport they love with dreams of trying to get to the nfl an enif that

doesn't work out they're kind of just kicked to the curb and don't really have a lot for them when they graduate and want to give athletes a chance to make well for themselves while they play the sport to support their families and change their communities for the time to come. >> elisha, otito, nice to meet you both and wish you the best. we'll check back in and see how things go. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you both. coming up, looting and vandalism on the streets of chicago's downtown. how the authorities are responding is next. no-contact e you can trust. >> tech: so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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here in downtown chicago. things are slowly getting back to normal here but you mentioned various stages of civil unrest in the country. some information getting from local police officers here is that this may stand out as something different here. not only the people enraged by the officer-involved shooting by according to chicago authorities is misinformation about a shooting that took place yesterday of a 20-year-old man that according to police shot at them and they returned fire injuring him and fueled frustrations but again there was some kind of misinformation that was circling on social media that led to some other concerns but ultimately what happened shortly after midnight is you saw this wave of looting that dominated the streets, businesses large and small damaged and many goods inside taken. you get a sense from business owners they're frustrated and

then hearing from the lieutenant governor of the state echoing the concerns of people here on the street. >> we know that because of covid-19 many of these businesses were just starting to reopen and to get back to business and so it's certainly devastating to see and not reflective of our city and it is certainly a situation that many people that i know have talked about just being devastating to wake up to. >> reporter: multiple arrests were made as a result. multiple officers that were injured. we need to be clear. based on the information that we are getting from police officials here there was no protest. this is not perhaps a previously seen in other american cities people protested and spiral out of control and this was according to police an assault on the businesses in the chicago area. >> live reporting, polo and have value for us, appreciate the

context there. thank you very much. thank you for joining us today. come back tomorrow. busy news week ahead. busy day right here. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. john, thank you. i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. we begin with a sober reality check from the head of the world health organization. >> this virus is proving exceptionally difficult to stop. what it has clearly demonstrated is take the pressure off the virus, the virus bounces back. >> it's not hopeless unless we do what we're doing. if we want it to be better it is up to us as citizens to step up in the absence of a vaccine and a national testing strategy. experts are clear. follow the recommended safety measures like wearing masks and socialis